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      <span class="submitted">Tue, 2006-10-31 04:56 — nelson</span>
  
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    <p>The MIT License</p>
<p>Copyright (c) &lt;year&gt; &lt;copyright holders&gt;</p>
<p>Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy<br />
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal<br />
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights<br />
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell<br />
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is<br />
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:</p>
<p>The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in<br />
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.</p>
<p>THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR<br />
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,<br />
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE<br />
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER<br />
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,<br />
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